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Shaun Manning 📚

@fasterthanshaun.bsky.social

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Co-founder and former owner of Booksweet, your community bookstore in Ann Arbor. Writer of things, mostly comics. Open for work. He/Him.

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Shaun Manning 📚's avatar Shaun Manning 📚 @fasterthanshaun.bsky.social
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Also the logo looks like a small, local ISP, which to be fair is the only reason I have this flyer a second glance.

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First they wanted us to call it “Xfinity,” now it’s “Now.” I wonder why Comcast doesn’t want people to know they’re buying Comcast?

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Courtney Milan's avatar Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com
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I didn’t know I needed to know this, but I did. (This is not sarcasm, I genuinely needed to know this.)

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Shaun Manning 📚's avatar Shaun Manning 📚 @fasterthanshaun.bsky.social
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oh shit I just noticed that "your state" is Michigan, same as me -- I absolutely *must* vote for this sticker.

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Greg Pak's avatar Greg Pak @gregpak.bsky.social
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Just called my rep AGAIN to tell them to sign onto this. Every D in the House should be a cosponsor. Yes, it won't pass the R-controlled House, but we have to make this an issue.

Please feel free to call your own rep if you feel similarly! You can find them here: www.house.gov/representati...

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Prisonculture's avatar Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social
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I believe them that they will do this almost immediately upon taking office again. I have lots of questions about what we do on Left(s) about this. Who is working on this now? [I'm sure some groups must be]

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jon rosenberg's avatar jon rosenberg @jonrosenberg.bsky.social
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I'm sure I'm super-late to this discussion but naming a Star Wars character Osha on a show about the occupational safety and health of the jedi is a very Lucas thing to do

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Excited is certainly part of it! And, er, if Microcosm is hiring...

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Italian is not one of the languages I can passably read, but this wouldn't be the first gorgeous BD I picked up without knowing the words

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Thanks, yes! Love your lineup. And Glenn sent us a very nice card when we sold the shop.

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So, it's hardly the biggest thing going on in my life, but my comics reading habits changed significantly when I opened a bookstore and I expect they'll change again now the shop is sold. What monthlies should I be reading?

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Amber's avatar Amber @risettemd.bsky.social
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The speed at which YouTube starts recommending far right, openly anti-LGBT videos after watching anything video game related absolutely disturbing. No wonder there's a gender divide in political views. Social media is literally engineered to create it.

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Mina Li (she/her)'s avatar Mina Li (she/her) @codenameminali.bsky.social
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turns out my state is having a contest on "I Voted" sticker designs, and I would like to show you the most metal one by a middle schooler:

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RF Kuang’s Yellowface is extraordinarily uncomfortable, especially if you do the audiobook. But I think it hits the marks you’re looking for.

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It’s really difficult to imagine a worse “solution “

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How else is he going to get out and meet the people now the comic cons aren’t inviting him anymore?

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TW's avatar TW @twesq.bsky.social
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I think we can officially retire the heartbreaking meme now

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Jill Krajewski's avatar Jill Krajewski @jillkrajewski.bsky.social
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pretty funny 2 of amazon’s breakout series concern the evils of wealthy monopolies that exploit workers and sway governments to increase their profits to everyone’s doom

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lilith kills u's avatar lilith kills u @deathcarpets.bsky.social
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no, that’s not what i’m saying at all. a chef fried this rice with shrimp in it. you watched him do it. its delicious. eat it and stop making meme jokes while we are at this nice hibachi restaurant, its expensive and your stepmom only has one birthday a year.

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L. D. Lewis, Sea Witch Apologist's avatar L. D. Lewis, Sea Witch Apologist @ellethevillain.bsky.social
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Me, preparing to perform any/all menial tasks: *kendrick voice* "watch me do my stuff"

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Sleeping Giants FR's avatar Sleeping Giants FR @slpng-giants-fr.bsky.social
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L'iconique WUTang Clan adore la joie française 🥰✊

Thank you so much, we had a close shave but we did it.
#LoveNotHate

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Elizabeth Biggs's avatar Elizabeth Biggs @elizabethbiggs.bsky.social
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Did you know that there were a few 13th century women working in the exchequer- if not, here you go! All that we know about Rachel Reeves' medieval predecessors at the treasury:
medium.com/@elizabethcb...

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🌿 Laura 🌿's avatar 🌿 Laura 🌿 @lauraamalasunta.bsky.social
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Me: I'm like a medieval princess You: You mean all the most worthy knights vie for your fair hand? Me: I mean I'm a woman who was given a weird-ass education in Latin, theology and ecclesiastical history designed for boys entering a monastery and now society has no clue what the fuck to do with me

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Pabst Blue Ronin 's avatar Pabst Blue Ronin @forestservicehater.bsky.social
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It kicks ass that the song of the summer was set up to be a fun but pretty inconsequential Beyonce country song but got eclipsed by Kendrick tearing Drake limb from limb

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All these guys look (and, more importantly, behave) like the outlandish villains in a Muppets movie.

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Radley Balko's avatar Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social
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This narrative has been pushed by heterodox types for years. It never made much sense.

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Shaun Manning 📚's avatar Shaun Manning 📚 @fasterthanshaun.bsky.social
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Received my absentee ballot for Michigan's August primary. Of two Dem Senate candidates, one represents a historically red district and has a ton of campaign backing, but the other is more closely aligned with my priorities. Then "priorities guy" announced a fundraiser with Dave Chapelle. So, no.

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RADINSKY — Illustrator 🏳️‍⚧️🪬's avatar RADINSKY — Illustrator 🏳️‍⚧️🪬 @thisisradinsky.bsky.social
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My friends and family are celebrating so much right now, the streets are so lively So much confidence in the future & the work that we can now get to France is far from perfect, but it has a combative spirit that many could take lessons from: organising & leftist unity WORKS

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Hands in the ay-rr like you just don’t cay-rr

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Jeff Stormer's avatar Jeff Stormer @jeffstormer.bsky.social
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I am here to once again declare that John Cena should star in an Ernest legacy sequel where he plays Ernest P. Worrell's improbably jacked son (it is never explained in any way why he is jacked)

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Tristan J. Tarwater's avatar Tristan J. Tarwater @backthatelfup.bsky.social
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Free idea for a journalist: get some graphic designers, go through the Project 2025 plan, cover 1. What already in place that'll make it easier for it to happen 2. Anything in place/being done to prevent it from happening. Make it a series of infographics. Maybe someone's already doing this?

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Hadas Weiss's avatar Hadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social
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“no such thing as unskilled labor” what about the person who reviewed my manuscript

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Jason K Pargin, author's avatar Jason K Pargin, author @jasonkpargin.bsky.social
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If you tried to read Dante's The Inferno and found it difficult, just imagine trying to explain Kendrick Lamar's "Not Like Us" to someone 700 years from now because it's mostly just that

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Patrick S. Tomlinson's avatar Patrick S. Tomlinson @stealthygeek.bsky.social
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If you're worried about brevity in your writing, don't. It took Project 2025 nine hundred pages to say fourteen words.

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